SPIRITUAL POEMS: “Deity” by Amado Nervo (“Deidad”)

Deity

As a spark sleeps in the pebble and a statue in the clay, so in you, divinity sleeps. Just a press of intense pain till the shock—the lightning of deity bursting from the inert stone.

Therefore don’t complain and blame fate, since what is divine within you can only emerge in such a manner. Grin and bear it if you can, this life the creator is sculpting, the hard blow of the chisel.

What matter, then, the evil hours, if every hour he adds a lovelier plume to your nascent wings? You shall see the condor at full altitude, you shall see the completed sculpture, you shall see, my soul, you shall see…

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